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Trauma Resiliency Model Level 1 Training

"TRM Level 1" is full. Please email registrar@upaya.org to be added to the wait list.

Why Talk Isn’t Enough: Using Biology Rather than Psychology in the Treatment of Trauma

Today’s counselors and caregivers are increasingly recognizing the limitations of talk in trying to ease the suffering of their clients. The symptoms that can result from highly stressful and traumatic events can be wide-ranging and profound and can include emotional, cognitive, behavioral, physical and spiritual effects. Current neuroscience research has highlighted the importance of the psychophysiological patterns that underlie a wide variety of traumatic stress responses. These patterns often cannot be helped by talk alone. In fact, research has shown that the certain parts of the thinking center of the brain go “off-line” during stress and following traumatic events.

Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM) is a practical, biologically-based intervention designed to teach skills to stabilize the client's nervous system and to reduce and/or prevent the symptoms of traumatic stress. TRM is also useful for complex trauma and in disaster field settings as a self-care stabilization model for first-responder teams. It is effective with adults and children, with acute trauma as well as trauma that happened in the past. TRM is an integrative (mind-body approach) which focuses on the automatic, defensive ways the body is neurologically programmed to respond to threat and fear. TRM emphasizes that human responses to threat are primarily instinctive and biological and only secondarily are cognitive and psychological.

Training in the TRM intervention is three days and is taught by a combination of didactic presentation, small group, and experiential exercises. Daily practice sessions help anchor the skills. Study groups are available to trainees following the training.

18 CEUs with payment of $30.00 over and above tuition.

Trauma Resiliency Model Level I Training

March 15 – 17, 2011

Laurie Leitch, PhD

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

7:008:00amOptional Meditation

8:009:00Breakfast

9:001:00pmSession*

*There will be a 15 minutes break during the session determined by the Trainer

1:002:00Lunch

2:004:30Session*

*There will be a 15 minutes break during the session determined by the Trainer

4:305:30Rest

5:306:30Optional Meditation*

*On Wednesday, 3/16 Laurie Leitch will give the dharma talk

6:307:30Dinner

Sample Schedule

More about the instructors:

Laurie Leitch, Ph.D. has been a clinical trainer, researcher and organizational consultant for over 25 years. She is the Co-Founder, with Brigadier General (ret.) Loree Sutton, MD, of Threshold GlobalWorks (TGW) and of Trauma Resource Institute (TRI). She has developed models of intervention that provide resiliency enhancing self-regulation skills via training in neuroscience-based programs appropriate with complex trauma and for use with adults and children suffering from long-term and acute trauma as well as war-zone trauma. Her organization, TGW, has developed a specialized program for systems of all sizes, Social Resilience Model (SRM). SRM targets today's highly networked and demanding organizational environments with their increasing rates of burn-out, secondary traumatization, demoralization, and staff attrition. SRM develops collective capacity- building to amplify resilience in individuals and groups within and between all levels of enterprises. SRM development was supported by a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellowship

Dr. Leitch has extensive experience providing clinical training and consultation in diverse and cross-cultural settings. Her experience with complex trauma includes providing treatment following 9/11, treatment and clinical training in southern Thailand after the tsunami, in Louisiana following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, providing self-regulation training to counselors working with genocide survivors in Rwanda, in China following the 5/12/08 earthquake, in Internally Displaced Person's camps in Kenya following the post-election tribal violence, and in Haiti post-earthquake. Her self-regulation model, TRM, developed with Miller-Karas, was named a promising practice for the military in a White Paper prepared for Congress by the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE).

Dr. Leitch's consistent focus is designing and implementing resilience-oriented approaches in which collaborative intelligence enhances and reinforces individual, organizational, and community well-being.